3,54Ghz stable as far
Well, how do i start? First saying thank to all of you. Finally we got this EOL chip to a good end, or for me, at last, it is.
Specially since this was the very first time i overclocked ... for me was a personal challenge between performance and knowledge, and i think after two months i just did some lil scratches, but enough for getting a good OC for 6400+ BE. I have read a lot and tested more ... i get sick of trying high voltages on everything so 2 weeks ago my race started in another direction.
I moved all to stock speeds and lowered the voltages to the minimum (including the Vcore to 1.1V), then started playing to get it stable (on 3200 was it just at Vcore 1.27V) and i've found interesting things, specially related to the 790FX chipset voltages, so i want to warn everyone that maybe this setup won't work for you unless you own that chipset, and of course, take in consideration every chip and cpu is different. Since my mobo has a lot of strange settings that i couldn't understand at all, i read about it and i decided to play just with the good documented ones. I just changed VCore, VRam and all the northbridge voltages that M3A32-MVP Deluxe includes. I moved towards the settings made me stable on stock speeds and pointed to a good almost-safe setup for me, 3-4% lower than i've been able to boot and do some benches, and then trick with voltages to get stable on all tests.
Actual settings:
MOBO: M3A32-MVP Deluxe Wifi/AP with 0801 BIOS
Processor FSB: 295
Processor Multiplier: 12x
PCI-E Freq: 100
Processor Voltage: 1,5250V
HT Multiplier: 800Mhz (4x)
RAM Voltage: 2,30V
Northbridge section:
HyperTransport Voltage: 1,40V
Core/PCI-e: 1,16V
NB PCIE PLL: 2,1V
RAM Divisor: 800Mhz (CPU/6)
RAM Timings: 5-5-5-15-20-2T
rest on auto
Stability Tests done:
- Sandra CPU Burn-In for 3 hours (first test)
- AMD Overdrive for 10 hours (without checking Calculation Test since it's meant just for the Phenoms -wikipedia told me-)
- 3DMark06 in loop test for more than 6 hours and a half
- Hard video encoding while doing light multitask stuff (browsing with some tabs & listening music with iTunes & chatting on different IM's & photoshop CS3 ...)
- Hard video encoding while playing Counter Strike Source at the same time for more than an hour.
- Playing more than 3 hours to CSS.
- wPrime 1.55 1024M
- 2 instances of SuperPi 32M running on each core independently "doing" the light stuff before mentioned (i underscore doing cause it was really hard 100% cpu use, the multitask was slower than usual and also affected to the bench, best score in dual mode for me was in 20 minutes few seconds)
- Running smooth without freezes and w/o forced reboots in almost 24/7 for a week as i said in the previous post, if it fails i'll tell you, but as far as i can see it's rough stable.
One more time, thanks to all, i really hope this works for some other too
(see attachments for more details)
ps: idle temps are better than showed, the shots were done just after the tests so water was still hot, right now it's 33-34/27-28ºC on cores giving a 31ºC global CPU temp doing the multitask light stuff including Photoshop. Also don't trust TMPIN2 on SuperPi shot, it's just a sensor issue, all is cool inside mobo. Sorry about the quality on BIOS pics, crap light!